Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices

The sad fact that we let a propoganda outlet fester for 3 decades without so much as even calling it out.

Yup. They are coddled in a media system that won't let them know any real facts.

So you're telling me the Democrats have a messaging problem?

I don't think what you said is clear, but to the extent that it is, I feel like it doesn't make sense.

The Democrats don't need to lie in order to point out that Trump was being a lying piece of s*** when he talked about bringing down prices. That's true, they can quote him time and again, and media that is sympathetic to the Democrats could do the same if it chose to, but it won't.

Also, many Democratic politicians and centrist media are not people or companies that I would particularly describe as highly truthful. They say true things a lot more than Donald Trump does, but that's a rather low bar.

Finally, there are so many obvious things that Democratic politicians could do if they were serious about addressing the problem with expensive groceries. What if they push to raise the minimum wage and key it to the cost of living? What if they bust up the corporations that dominate the grocery store and food distribution industries? I feel like both of those could greatly impact the price of food.

Presidents and administrations might not be able to dictate specific prices, but they can and do enact laws and regulations that influence or even define the economy. Trump's proposed tariffs are expected –not just by economists, but by markets, as seen after the election– to raise prices and, if they are enacted and result in the predicted outcome, fingers should be pointed at his Orangeness.

The Republicans have the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Presidency. Trump can either lead his party to deliver for the American people, or he can't. If executive orders are all he can do, then he really is a failure.

As for the powers of the executive, he may not have any direct ability to dictate prices, but tariffs and antitrust are pretty significant tools. If Trump's FTC allows the Albertsons Kroger merger that Biden's FTC blocked, then we'll know he never intended to do anything about grocery prices.

Apart from the fact that he literally said he would, sure. Completely ignore all the claims made, and there’s no expectation that they would bring down grocery prices.

Of course that’s only if you ignore the things they said, with their mouths, while being recorded.

POTUS is responsible for many important things. The price of a bottle of Coke is not one of them.

I kept asking all the ding-a-lings that were going on about the price of eggs and blaming Biden what exact mechanism Biden used to cause inflation, etc...

Yup, not politically savvy at all.

Sounds like a woke conspiracy to run cars on air just to take jobs away from blue-collar oil and gas workers. Coal-rolls away in a lifted F-350 with aftermarket Cybertruck style headlights

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The democratic candidate was crap, so I voted for moronic Hitler. Making the country a terrible place for everyone oughta teach those dems to pick better candidates! /s

I say we blame both. People that abstained, voted 3rd party, voted for Trump out of spite, etc. deserve their share of the blame for allowing the absolute worst president in history to have a second term. The DNC is to blame for running a campaign and candidates so milquetoast that people felt the desire to protest vote. Both things are true.

I'm reasonably sure there's plenty of room to blame both.

Oof true but Lemmy doesn't want to hear that. The "Beatings will continue until you vote for Wall Street's Candidate" crowd hit Lemmy hard during the campaign and they convinced a lot of people that it was the voter's fault if Democrats lost.

And bring polio back to the US, because eggs are expensive.

They stopped working together decades ago.

They now work exclusively for their corporate overlords. The rest is a dog and pony show for the voters.

that's just the thing comservatives turned the entire system into game "us vs them" and liberal joimed in a bit later as they lack the capacity to redefine the game. Progressives get shunned by their respective wings and orthodoxy gets entrenched making it even more of "us vs them". I'd love to find a way to abolish parties and force representatives to actually represent all people from their electorate area... but I'm a dreamer.